The Importance of Different Status Characteristics for Marriage Partner Selection: A Comparison of Men and Women and Upwardly and Downwardly Mobile People.

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The Importance of Different Status Characteristics for Marriage Partner Selection: A Comparison of Men and Women and Upwardly and Downwardly Mobile People.

Kerckhaert, A.C.

(2008) Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences Theses

(Master thesis)

Abstract

According to the Exchange Hypothesis, the Family Hypothesis and the Status Maximization Hypothesis, men and women and upwardly and downwardly mobile people differ with respect to their preference for certain status characteristics of a marriage partner. Using four editions of the Family Survey of the Dutch Population, we analyze 2130 ... read more married couples and investigate the difference between these groups. The results do not show a difference in preferences between men and women. Both have the strongest interest in a marriage partner with a large quantity of achieved socioeconomic resources and the weakest interest in a marriage partner with similar cultural resources. Compared to downwardly mobile people, upwardly mobile people have a stronger interest in a marriage partner with many ascribed socioeconomic resources and with similar cultural resources. Compared to upwardly mobile people, downwardly mobile people have a stronger interest in a marriage partner with many achieved socioeconomic resources. show less

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